Carol, I completely agree that there is nothing wrong with working in a variety of techniques and styles. As jewelry artists, I think it’s an excellent creativity builder and a satisfying journey to dabble in many jewelry and craft media. And if you’re selling your jewelry, your customers will appreciate that you always have something new to delight them. 🙂

When you own style are known. Take away all items that doesn’t fit to your style. Put them on sale for a while. If they don’t sell. Make something else out of the items.

Good luck! 🙂

One of the easiest ways to identify your niche is to brainstorm ideas. Ask yourself questions about your passions – hobbies and interests. For example: what do you read? do you volunteer? what organizations do you belong to? are you a collector? do you have animals – what kinds? what is your family structure? Write down your ideas. Don’t censor. Ideas could lead to other ideas. Give yourself a time limit 5 or 10 minutes.

Your earrings are roses and leaves. Could there be a market for roses or flowers or pink roses or nature? I’m hoping you get the idea.

Identifying your market segment or niche is the most important aspect of your business. The customer has a need and you are fulfilling that need. An example of a jewelry niche is medical alert bracelets.

Good luck!

At the market I sell at I sell to kids and bikers and businesspeople, male and female, all price ranges. I make something and then figure out the category, who it’s for. If it’s a new category, then I have a new category!

Point is, when you have a wide open palate, it can be hard to know where to start. If you give yourself some parameters, it becomes easier to take a direction.

Hi Jill! Being multi-creative in your jewelry is an advantage.

Combining your techniques and / or materials enables you to make your jewelry more unique. And people will appreciate (and come to recognize) your distinctive work!

Your style will probably evolve continually, and all the techniques you’ve experimented with previously tend to come in handy when you’re moving in new directions.

I’d like to encourage you to find ways to combine your favorite things about making jewelry – and develop unique pieces that make your heart sing while you’re making them!

Sometimes all it takes is sitting down and just playing with your supplies – how do these beads look together? Ooh, I could add a Steampunk touch there. Where’s that brass chain – that would be perfect for this! And you’re off and flowing on the tide of creativity.

Please keep us posted on your progress! I’d love to hear how your jewelry journey unfolds from here. 🙂

First I want to say that the earring you’re showing us here are very pretty! Beautifully done!

It takes time to find your unique style. Don’t get frustrated or put pressure on yourself. That doesn’t help the creative process, in fact it hinders it.

And if the only way you can focus and step into the creative process right now is to follow instructions in making a piece, then do that. It’s alright to be in that place. As you do that, you’ll eventually start making modifications to those pieces because your own creativity will kick in, or you’ll make another piece afterwards that might be similar in some way, but your own in other ways. In the meantime, you are learning lots of skills.

And as you said, as you study Fine Arts, your own art will start to manifest. It’s a journey for all of us, and we’re all constantly evolving and changing. Just have fun with it, and enjoy the wonderful journey ahead of you! The selling part of it will fall into place eventually.